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20242026
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8 papers

math.CO2026

Forts, (fractional) zero forcing, and Cartesian products of graphs

Thomas R. Cameron, Leslie Hogben, Franklin H. J. Kenter +2

The (disjoint) fort number and fractional zero forcing number are introduced and related to existing parameters including the (standard) zero forcing number. The fort hypergraph is…

math.CO2026

New Results on Difference Distance Magic Labelings

Roza Aceska, Niny Arcila-Maya, Joshua Carlson +5

A graph labeling assigns values to the components of a graph (vertices, edges, etc.). In particular, distance magic labelings have been widely studied in undirected graphs. In such…

math.CO2025

Reconfiguration of Minimum PSD Forcing Sets and Minimum Skew Forcing Sets

Novi Bong, Mary Flagg, Mark Hunnell +4

Reconfiguration graphs provide a way to represent relationships among solutions to a problem, and have been studied in many contexts. We investigate the reconfiguration graphs corr…

math.CO2024

A Characterization of Claw-Free Graphs using Zero Forcing Invariants

Randy Davila, Houston Schuerger, Ben Small

We prove that the \emph{standard zero forcing number} and the \emph{positive semidefinite zero forcing number} are equal for all claw-free graphs . This result r…

math.CO2024

Zero Forcing and Vertex Independence Number on Cubic and Subcubic Graphs

Houston Schuerger, Nathan Warnberg, Michael Young

Motivated by a conjecture from the automated conjecturing program TxGraffiti, in this paper the relationship between the zero forcing number, , and the vertex independence nu…

math.CO2024

The Zero Forcing Numbers of Peony Graphs and Web Graphs

Sara Anderton, Kanno Mizozoe, Houston Schuerger +1

The concept of zero forcing involves a dynamic coloring process by which blue vertices cause white vertices to become blue, with the goal of forcing the entire graph blue while cho…